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Living Christ in Daily Life A. T . Schofield’s eldest daughter was a great horsewoman, but being thrown when roughriding, she got a depressed fracture of the skull upon which no surgeon would operate, and of which, after some years of great suffering, she died. Dr. Schofield de scribes an incident in the early days of her illness: “When my daughter had been ill a fortnight, her nurse came to me and said that she thought I would like to know that she had become a Christian. ‘“ Why, what were you when you came?’ “ ‘I was an atheist, doctor.’ “ ‘I suppose your patient has been speak ing to you?’ “ ‘No, she never said a word, but she is the only absolutely contented girl I ever met, and I couldn’t understand it, so I asked for her secret, and now I’m a Chris tian.’ ”— Sunday School Times. His favor with man was short-lived, and when at the beginning of His public min istry He returned to His home town and preached to His old neighbors, they were so enraged with Him that they “ rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong” (Lk. 4:29). They sought in their anger to put Him to death. None of us can truly appreciate the terri ble things endured by our Lord during the thirty-three years of the days of His flesh. "Despised and Rejected of Men" O f course, none of us knows anything about His personal appearance. Many art ists have attempted to depict His features for us, but they do not agree among them selves as to what He looked like, and none of us can tell. In Isaiah 52:14, in the midst of a passage manifestly applying to our Lord Jesus Christ, it is written that “ his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men.” And while it may be true, as Dr. Scofield suggests, that this marred visage was “the effect of the brutalities described in Matthew 26:67, 68; 27:27-30” (Scofield Reference Bible), we may not be sure even of that. Let us go into Isaiah 53, and let us examine again this graphic picture of the Christ of God, written by the Holy Spirit of Truth, seven hundred years be fore the Son of God became the Son of Man. Here we find Him described as “a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not” (Isa. 53: 2, 3). This Man from heaven was so despised and rejected of His fellow men that they hid their faces from Him. They esteemed “ him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted,” and did not know that all this suffering was in their behalf (vs. 4-6). THE MESSIANIC PSALMS [ Continued from page 377]
Surely, it ought to make us love Him more when we are reminded of all these things He bore that He might finally take away our sins ! His enemies flung into His face the suggestion that He was “born of fornication” (John 8:41). And men wear ing the livery of heaven today and mas querading as ministers of righteousness are flinging the same slander into His face. But we have not so learned Christ. W-e have come to know Him as the One whb, for the joy that was set before Him in bring ing niany sons unto glory, was willing to endure the cross, despising the shame, and that He is now seated at the right hand of the Majesty on high, able to save to the end all who come to God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. Blessed, indeed, are all they that put their trust in Him! “ THE WORD OF THE CROSS” [Continued from page 373] Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” What is God’s pronouncement on the critics and rejectors? It is given in one word: “perishing.” How could it be other wise? Consider God’s purpose in giving Christ to die for us. John 3:16 states it clearly—namely, “ that whosover believeth in him should not perish, but have everlast ing life.” This theme is borne out by the whole tenor of Scripture, for example, 2 Peter 3:9: “The Lord is . . . not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” God’s purpose in the death of Christ for sinners is made clear enough for all to understand: “ To save them that believe” (1 Cor. 1:21). There is no other way but God’s way. If you reject God’s way, you reject the only salvation. “ Oh, why was He there as the Bearer of sin. If on Jesus my guilt was not laid? Oh, why from His side flowed the sin- cleansing blood, If His dying thy debt has not paid?” Notice, briefly, those who live in the sec ond relationship to the cross—that of accept ance of the Saviour—and who, as a con sequence, are “being saved.” The moment a sinner believes on the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour, that soul is saved from the penalty of sin, but this scripture includes the teaching that the believer is “being saved” from the power of sin. Man needs to be saved, not only from the pen alty of the sins he has committed in the past, but also from the power of sin which besets him in the present. God’s provision for a guilty sinner includes all he needs from the first moment he believes God Con cerning the great proclamation of salvation to that moment in which he is safely “landed on yonder shores of bliss.” It is no wonder that the Apostle Paul exclaimed: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth” (Rom. 1:16). In preaching “ Christ crucified,” the Apostle Paul was proclaiming to Corinth and to the world the all-sufficient Saviour.
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